I was a secondary school English teacher for 32 years, and have developed a passion for the great London writers such as William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf. I have brought up my family here and know how much London has to offer visitors and Londoners of all ages. I love to share my enthusiasm for the city with others, to celebrate the contemporary city, and to peel back some of the many layers of its history and culture – going back 2,000 years to the foundation of the Roman city of Londinium.

I have grown to know and love London's magnificent churches and cathedrals, such as Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral. You might wish to join me in visiting these, or royal London locations such as the Tower of London, or the Mall, around which the Changing of the Guard can be observed. Then we have Windsor Castle, maritime Greenwich and Hampton Court Palace – all spectacular places, replete with hundreds of years of history.

London is densely packed with cultural sites and echoes. As a former English teacher, I am keen to take groups to visit the haunts of writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde or Virginia Woolf.  There are also the free-to-visit world-class art galleries such as the Tate and the National Gallery. Or why not visit the Natural History Museum, with its dinosaurs, or the British Museum, with its eight million artefacts, from two million years of human culture?

Another option is to come on a walk with me around an area of historic London such as the City of London and Clerkenwell, the South Kensington museum district, royal London (and its parks) or Spitalfields, with its fascinating history of migrant settlement through the centuries.

As for the places of interest around London, you could join me on a journey around Stonehenge, with its ancient and mysterious stones; or to the Roman and Georgian city of Bath; the "dreaming spires" of Oxford; the delightful Cotswold villages; or the great medieval cathedrals of Salisbury, Winchester or Canterbury. Finally, if you want to find out more about William Shakespeare, I would love to take you on a visit to his birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon.